http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/8520405/Meet-the-woman-allergic-to-electricity.html

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"Meet the woman allergic to electricity A British woman cannot use an electric kettle, keeps her washing machine in a concrete outhouse and cannot have neighbours with wireless internet because she is allergic to electricity. Janice Tunnicliffe spends every night playing Scrabble by candlelight with her husband because she claims to have a rare condition called electrosensitivity. She cannot bear to be anywhere near electromagnetic fields of any kind and, as a result, she cannot watch television, listen to the radio or talk on a mobile phone and has been left completely isolated from the modern world by her condition. Mrs Tunnicliffe, 55, was struck down with the illness after receiving chemotherapy for bowel cancer three years ago. Since then she has suffered constant headaches, chest pains, nausea and tingling in her arms and legs whenever she is near electrical devices or items that emit a signal. Her only relief in this time was when her village, near Mansfield in rural Nottinghamshire, suffered a temporary power cut. She said: "Different things give me different feelings but it's mostly headaches and nausea. iPhones make feel really sick within about 20 minutes of being near one so even though I might not realise someone has one straightaway, I soon find out. "Wifi makes me feel like I have a clamp at the back of my head which is squeezing the life out of me. It's completely draining and a home hub can totally immobilise me - I'm left unable to move my arms and legs." Mrs Tunnicliffe’s normal existence was turned upside down when in February 2008 she was admitted to hospital with severe abdominal pains and vomiting. After three days of tests, it was discovered she was suffering from cancer and surgeons operated immediately to remove a six-inch tumour from her bowel, plus 14 lymph nodes. Fortunately, despite the size of the tumour, her cancer had not spread, but it was decided that she should have chemotherapy after the surgery as a precautionary measure. But it was then that her unusual problem started and she began to feel ill whenever she was near the myriad electrical and wireless items in her home. She said: “Personally, I think there must be a link with the chemotherapy and the ES, but no one is going to admit that. “I used to go for long walks every day and while I was out of the house I would be okay. But when I came back I would start to feel unwell again very quickly and slowly I started to put two and two together. "After the cancer, the doctors recommended we enjoy a nice holiday somewhere and the whole family went to the Greek island of Kos for two weeks in September 2008. "While I was there was I was fine, but when I got home I felt ill again almost straightaway. It wasn't until afterwards that I considered it might have been because of all the 'electrosmog' we were experiencing at home.” Mrs Tunnicliffe has even had to cover her windows with a special metallic material to deflect errant electromagnetic waves. Graham Lamburn, technical manager at Powerwatch, an independent organisation which promotes safer environments, said so far the medical profession has been slow to recognise electrosensitivity as an illness as its causes are as yet unknown. The Council of Europe Committee on Monday called for a dramatic reduction in exposure to phones and other wireless devices. "

5/19/2011 9:37:35 AM

Send that Bitch an IPAD...Bitches love IPADs

5/19/2011 9:39:45 AM

cough *bullshit* cough

5/19/2011 9:40:03 AM

I have the same thing!

Luckily, there is a treatment:

OPIATES!

5/19/2011 9:45:36 AM

I'm allergic to electricity too. I stuck my finger in a light socket once and had a painful reaction.

5/19/2011 9:45:52 AM

nobody tell her about all the electromagnetic radiation flying around in the atmosphere

she should try wearing chain mail, that'll take care of that pesky EMF

5/19/2011 10:09:53 AM

iop1.
If wireless effects her, aren't phone signals etcetera flying around the atmosphere? What ^ said.
Living in isolation sucks, but still, this is a little odd.

5/19/2011 10:13:18 AM

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"Janice Tunnicliffe spends every night playing Scrabble by candlelight with her husband because she claims to have a rare condition called electrosensitivity."

Wonder if that one came up before the wedding. Maybe they met at one of those Renaissance fairs and they share a hatred for technology.

5/19/2011 10:27:38 AM

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"'electrosmog'"

I like how she said iPhone rather than cellphone. They should have referenced other cases.

5/19/2011 10:32:39 AM

bitch be lying and crazy.





she needs to move to an uncivilized part of the world, africa or australia or some parts of south america.



or montana/wyoming.

5/19/2011 10:33:15 AM

So does this Greek island not have electricity?

5/19/2011 10:36:11 AM

Magneto could beat the shit out of her.

5/19/2011 10:55:05 AM

Do brits not know the definition of an allergy?

Because what they describe ain't it.

What is described is
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity

[Edited on May 19, 2011 at 11:24 AM. Reason : .]

5/19/2011 11:19:55 AM

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"not recognized as a medical condition by the medical or scientific communities"

5/19/2011 11:31:53 AM

lol... it would be really interesting if they needed to use a defibrillator on her at some point for a medical emergency

5/19/2011 11:33:18 AM

its getting a little old seeing all these threads that are already news on other websites. I prefer original posting.

5/19/2011 11:37:32 AM

Can't they just put this bitch in a Faraday cage?

5/19/2011 12:00:45 PM

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"I'm allergic to electricity too. I stuck my finger in a light socket once and had a painful reaction."

I read that as painful erection

5/19/2011 3:22:02 PM

^ 3 some of us use tww as our primary dumb news source

5/19/2011 3:34:00 PM

Yeah, shit, what the hell was I thinking of posting this article here. TWW has enough interesting content courtesy of users like dhbawley or w/e to keep us entertained. No way TWW could have something funny to say or discuss about weird news.

Oh wait.

5/19/2011 3:38:46 PM

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"its getting a little old seeing all these threads that are already news on other websites. I prefer original posting."

It is not the new story that is the entertaining part... it is the TWW jokes about the story

5/19/2011 3:40:22 PM

TINFOIL

HAT

5/19/2011 3:51:30 PM

"its getting a little old seeing all these threads that are already news on other websites. I prefer original posting."



Sounds like the problem is with YOU! You need to stop reading other sites.

5/19/2011 3:53:48 PM

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"its getting a little old seeing all these threads that are already news on other websites. I prefer original posting. "

so quit reading all the other sites

or quit reading this one

no one cares what you think

5/19/2011 3:54:06 PM

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"no one cares what you think"

I, for one, care what you think.

I just don't like you.

5/19/2011 3:55:18 PM

she's allergic so her neighbors can't have wireless internet?

FTS. tell her to move out

5/19/2011 7:11:02 PM

No no no. No wireless network here.

5/19/2011 7:14:36 PM

I know you be havin a wireless internets in there. I know because the only time I get a rash between my toes is when wireless internets is near.

5/19/2011 7:16:44 PM

sounds like an episode of House

5/19/2011 7:16:49 PM

Would it be murder if I hid my Iphone in her house?

5/19/2011 7:18:32 PM

She just needs to acclimate herself to electricity. Just stick a finger in a socket every other day or so. You're body will get used to it.

5/19/2011 7:20:26 PM

I have adverse darkening of the skin in response to sunlight. I guess I'm allergic. Somebody go turn the sun off.

5/19/2011 7:23:13 PM

Too bad she can't play 'Words With Friends' and has to play scrabble

[Edited on May 19, 2011 at 7:24 PM. Reason : .]

5/19/2011 7:24:26 PM

Maybe she's just got a sick addiction to Scrabble that she can't come to terms with so she came up with this bullshit, or maybe someone in the family she doesn't like...


Oh no, honey go away, you have electronics on you...and you know how I am allergic to electricity (and you, ahh Scrabble all to myself)

5/19/2011 9:50:44 PM

She should probably stop using her body then since electricity plays a pretty important role in it. Shes prolly allergic to months too because once a month her vagina bleeds.

5/20/2011 2:03:03 AM